{"id":2016,"date":"2008-11-06T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2008-11-06T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T00:07:00","slug":"after-a-dozen-bushharper-commercials-last-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"After a dozen Bush=Harper commercials last election&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SRNZGZXJ1pI\/AAAAAAAAAwE\/pzX3_yDtww4\/s1600-h\/harperbush.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265650355748329106\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 212px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SRNZGZXJ1pI\/AAAAAAAAAwE\/pzX3_yDtww4\/s320\/harperbush.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>&#8230;Stephen Harper has every reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081106.wharperobama1106\/BNStory\/politics\/home\">to be excited<\/a> about Barack <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Obama&#8217;s<\/span> victory.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And now, for the first time in a long time, being seen as close to the Americans may actually be a political <em>asset<\/em>, rather than a <em>liability<\/em>. If you ditch relativism out the window, Stephen Harper and Barack Obama probably <a href=\"http:\/\/idealisticpragmatist.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/stephen-harper-and-hillary-clinton.html\">line up fairly well policy-wise<\/a>. So what better way to shield yourself against criticism at home on issues like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20081106.CLIMATE06\/TPStory\/Environment\">environment<\/a> and foreign policy, than to be seen as lining up with the most popular politician in Canada right now?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Stephen Harper has every reason to be excited about Barack Obama&#8217;s victory. And now, for the first time in a long time, being seen as close to the Americans may actually be a political asset, rather than a liability. If you ditch relativism out the window, Stephen Harper and Barack Obama probably line up fairly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}